Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-09-07

provided, and during the cold season
warm, well ventilated, sunny quarters
are extremely important.
The first yearof the colt'slife especial.
" the first winter, is the most critical
period of his existence. If through neg
lect he is allowed to get out of condi-
ton he will never quite recover from
from the effects. Consequently proper
food, and an abundance of it, with care
to cleanliness of his person and his
quarters, are most essential. -~
Grain never produces large belly,
either up the colt or the adult; certainly
not unless fed out Of the most extraord-
mary manner, which would prove des-
truction to the animal. - II
CARE OF CALv1NG COWS.
A great deal of troubles experienced
with COWS when calving because of
sheer carelessness. This is a process
of nature, and there should be no
trouble; but if we antagonize nature in
other directions we cripple her all
round. Many a COW has no special at
tention paid to her either while she is
carrying her cave. or at calving time.
She is permitted to get along the best
way she can; and not infrequently the
system is in such weakened condition
that to expect her to calf with safety
is foolish. But she should not be killed
with kindness. She should not be fat
tened, for instance. She should sim
ply be kept ingood condition, and every
ones judgement will suggest what that
is. Milk secretion should not be greatly
encouraged before calving. The ami
malls food should consist principally of
the bone and muscle forming varieties.
And after calving great care should be
taken that she does not get cold, and
her food for few days must be of a
non-stimulating character. The sys-
tenn for time needs opportunity to re-
and until it has had a chance
to do that no additional strain should
be put upon it; for time the machinery
should be run at low speed.
THE OLD WAY.
Tom Windiate has never used a self
binder on his 160-acre farm at Manito-
woo, Wis. He says it is cheaper to
hire all his grain cut by the cradle. He
says the cost of the Irvine used iu bind
ing, the use of team and binder and
the interest of the money invested will
cut his grain; besides the average life of
a sef-binder is not over four years. An
other new departure of his is that he
never binds his grain when cut, but
draws it in loose. He claims that by so
doing he cures his straw better and
more quickly, that it makes better
odder, and that the quality of the grain
is improved by allowing it to lay
awhile in the swath. He saves the
labor of binding, and says the straw in
a loose condition can be ''fed'' in
threshing much more regularly than in
bundles. He has harvested for years
in that fashion, and could not be in
duced to make any changes.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The duration of the infectious stages
of various diseases is thus given by DR..
T. F. Pearse, an English physician.
Measles from the second day of the
disease, for three weeks; smallpox from
the first day, for four weeks; scarlet
fever from the fourth day, for seven
weeks; humps from the second day, for
three weeks; diphtheria from the first
lay, for three weeks. The incubation
periods, or intervals occurring between
exposure to infection and the frstisymp-
toms, are as follows: Whooping cough.
fourteen days; humps, eighteen days;
ten days; smallpox, twelve
days; scarlet fever, twelve days; diph-
iberia, fourteen days.
AN ANoDYNE.
There is for man or woman no ano-
dyne so potent as working in the fresh
earth. Take the strip of ground which
has hitherto been ill-kept; let it be
and laid out in some simple
design; then, in a sun hat, thick shoes
and garden gloves and with a good,
strong trowel begin to make acquain-
;ance with mother earth, and you will
ind her full of kindly sympathy.
SAT- LUIS.
Orange Judd, who is travelling in
Colorado, has found a very large and
fertile valley there. ''How many are
aware that this so-called valley where
we now write, the ''San Luis, hemmed
in by long mountain ranges, among the
highest on the continent, exceeds in ex-
tent the State of Massachusetts, if we
include the slopes on the surrounding
foothills, and that it contains an almost
level plain, large enough to set the
whole State of Connecticut down upon
where it would stand almost mile and
a half aboveits present elevation! How
many conceive of extensive farms,
great fields of wheat, oats, barley, ETC.,
Just now ready to yield to the harvesters
so many bushels per acre of extra grain
that even the fertile prairies of the
Valley and the bottoms of
the Red River of the North, would have
to yield the palm" -...
SCIENTIFIC FACTS.
According to the journal of Health,